Screw Printing Press in a British Library Hallway (London, England) – Antique Wall Art
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Screw Printing Press in a British Library Hallway (London, England) comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Screw Printing Press in a British Library Hallway (London, England)
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A Victorian-era screw printing press stands in a hallway of the British Library in London, its heavy iron frame and wooden platen a reminder of how printed pages were made long before offset presses and digital typesetting. Screw presses of this kind, which used a threaded spindle to press an inked forme against paper, dominated printing shops from the early 1500s through the nineteenth century. Set among modern institutional surroundings, the machine makes a quiet contrast between the library's role as a repository of printed works and the mechanical craft that produced them. The photograph was taken by a Flickr user under a Creative Commons license.
| Notes | By: takomabibelot, Flickr.com, Creative Commons |
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| Original scan | 2,400 × 3,341 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3050589967_4d25ef643f_o Screw Printing Press in a British Library Hallway (London, England) takomabibelot |
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